Take a proactive approach to the disappearing Amazon review problem

Posted on 01/22/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Penny Sansevieri has found that the question of “how do I restore my Amazon reviews?” is unlikely to stop being...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Penny Sansevieri, Reader reviews

How to write a villain who feels real to your readers

Posted on 01/22/2020 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Author Suzanne Collins revealed yesterday that her Hunger Games prequel would tell the back story of the hated President Snow....

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Characters, Jane Friedman, Writing advice

Is it canceled or cancelled? Depends on where you are!

Posted on 01/21/2020 at 01:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The trick to remembering how many l's belong in the past tense and gerund form of cancel should be pretty...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Language, Writer's Digest

The indie author's guide to creating a business plan

Posted on 01/21/2020 at 09:29 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

How many times in your life have you decided to strive for some goal … and then barely made it...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: ALLi (Alliance of Independent Authors), The business of writing

The Creative Penn: Why indies should be able to pitch their books

Posted on 01/20/2020 at 03:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Joanna Penn understands that you may never pitch your book to an agent or publishing company. That’s more than okay...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Joanna Penn, Marketing

What David Gaughran learned about marketing from "The Piña Colada Song"

Posted on 01/20/2020 at 11:12 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Those of you prone to earworms may want to skip this post. David Gaughran reflects on the five marketing lessons...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: David Gaughran, Marketing, Pop culture

Sunday study session: Writer Beware’s year in review

Posted on 01/19/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

The folks behind Writer Beware would hate to hear that any author missed one of their alerts. So Victoria Strauss...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Contests, Licenses, copyrights, and other legalese, Writer Beware

The structure of your novel can enhance the overall story

Posted on 01/18/2020 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

When we think of story structure, we often think of plot progression and not necessarily the literal way in which...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Plot / narrative, Writer's Digest, Writing advice

Dave Chesson explains how to pick Amazon ad keywords

Posted on 01/17/2020 at 02:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Say you’re looking into using Amazon Ads. You might think that, having done your Kindle keywords research, you can just...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Amazon, Dave Chesson (the Kindlepreneur), Marketing

Need a free graphic-design suite? David Gaughran has you covered

Posted on 01/17/2020 at 10:45 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

David Gaughran has a roundup of his favorite free graphic-design tools for authors, but if you already use and love...

Categories: Behind the scenes

Tagged As: Cover design, David Gaughran, Design, Technology